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Impact of an Integrated Nutrition and Health Programme on Neonatal Impact of an integrated nutrition and health programme on neonatal mortality in rural northern India Abdullah H Baqui,a Emma K Williams,a Amanda M Rosecrans,a Praween K Agrawal,a Saifuddin Ahmed,b Gary L Darmstadt,a Vishwajeet Kumar,a Usha Kiran,c Dharmendra Panwar,c Ramesh C Ahuja,d Vinod K Srivastava,d Robert E Black a & Manthuram Santosham a Objective To assess the impact of the newborn health component of a large-scale community-based integrated nutrition and health programme. Methods Using a quasi-experimental design, we evaluated a programme facilitated by a nongovernmental organization that was implemented by the Indian government within existing infrastructure in two rural districts of Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Mothers who had given birth in the 2 years preceding the surveys were interviewed during the baseline (n = 14 952) and endline (n = 13 826) surveys. The primary outcome measure was reduction of neonatal mortality. Findings In the intervention district, the frequency of home visits by community-based workers increased during both antenatal (from 16% to 56%) and postnatal (from 3% to 39%) periods, as did frequency of maternal and newborn care practices. In the comparison district, no improvement in home visits was observed and the only notable behaviour change was that women had saved money for emergency medical treatment. Neonatal mortality rates remained unchanged in both districts when only an antenatal visit was received. However, neonates who received a postnatal home visit within 28 days of birth had 34% lower neonatal mortality (35.7 deaths per 1000 live births, 95% confidence interval, CI: 29.2–42.1) than those who received no postnatal visit (53.8 deaths per 1000 live births, 95% CI: 48.9–58.8), after adjusting for sociodemographic variables. Three-quarters of the mortality reduction was seen in those who were visited within the first 3 days after birth. The effect on mortality remained statistically significant when excluding babies who died on the day of birth. Conclusion The limited programme coverage did not enable an effect on neonatal mortality to be observed at the population level. A reduction in neonatal mortality rates in those receiving postnatal home visits shows potential for the programme to have an effect on neonatal deaths. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008;86:796–804. الرتجمة العربية لهذه الخالصة يف نهاية النص الكامل لهذه املقالة. .Une traduction en français de ce résumé figure à la fin de l’article. Al final del artículo se facilita una traducción al español Introduction infections (36%), complications of ied. However, population-level data on preterm birth (28%) and birth asphyxia the impact of family and community- The neonatal period is recognized as a (23%), with low birth weight as the based neonatal care from large-scale brief, critical time that requires focused primary contributory cause.1 High cov- programmes is scarce. A need exists interventions to reach the Millennium erage of a few simple and cost-effective to implement proven interventions at Development Goal of a two-thirds interventions would reduce neonatal scale, across the continuum of care, reduction in child mortality by 2015. mortality.4–7 Interventions at the fam- without losing impact. In India there are one million neonatal ily and community level can save Here, we evaluate the effect of a deaths every year, representing approxi- lives, especially where health systems community-based package of maternal mately a quarter of all global neonatal are weak.4,8 Several community-based and newborn interventions that was deaths.1,2 Neonatal deaths account for efficacy trials have evaluated service implemented at scale using existing about 38% of the annual 10.6 million delivery strategies to improve newborn government infrastructure through an child deaths recorded worldwide and survival.7,9–16 Those trials were con- integrated nutrition and health pro- nearly half of the deaths in children ducted under controlled conditions to gramme in eight states of India. This under 5 years in India.1,3 ensure high programme coverage and evaluation was conducted in two rural In developing countries, the pri- usually employed workers who deliv- districts of the state of Uttar Pradesh, mary causes of neonatal deaths are ered only the intervention being stud- India. a Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States of America (USA). b Department of Population and Family Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. c CARE-India, New Delhi, India. d King George Medical University, Lucknow, India. Correspondence to Abdullah H Baqui (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.07.042226 (Submitted: 21 March 2007 – Revised version received: 12 December 2007 – Accepted: 6 March 2008 ) 796 Bulletin of the World Health Organization | October 2008, 86 (10) Research Abdullah H Baqui et al. Nutrition and health programme’s impact on neonatal mortality Fig. 1. Conceptual model for promotion of newborn care within the INHP Ministry of Women and Ministry of Health CARE-India Child Development’s Integrated Planning, coordination and logistical and Family Welfare Child Development Services Implementing Infrastructure support to integrate and strengthen partners ICDS and MOHFW programmes with Infrastructure One auxiliary nurse-midwife an emphasis on newborn care and per 5000 One anganwadi worker per Technical support, training of government 1000 (or 1 village) their inputs Planning, training, supervision, officials, frontline health workers Planning, training, supervision, supplies, logistics and community volunteers and monitoring supplies, logistics Funding to NGOs for behaviour change and monitoring Programme and policy communication and social marketing development Programme and policy Monitoring and evaluation development Health workers’ knowledge improved Increased programme coverage Processes Improved monitoring systems at the block and district level Volunteer change agents recruited and trained; volunteer women’s groups formed at the village level Improved supervision Strengthened supply chain Mothers’ knowledge Improved use Outcomes Improved preventive care Improved newborn of maternal and newborn practices for mothers care practices of health-care care increased services Impact Reduced neonatal mortality rate anganwadi, government child-care and mother-care centre; ICDS, Integrated and Development Services; INHP, Integrated Nutrition and Health Programme; MOHFW, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; NGO, nongovernmental organization. Methods bearing women and children under the mentary food to poor families, and age of 5 years; these interventions were provide preschool education.17–19 The Programme description evaluated separately. INHP encouraged anganwadi workers The Integrated Nutrition and Health In both the INHP and standard to recruit community volunteers called Programme (INHP) was a partnership government health services, health “change agents” to further improve the of an international nongovernmental education and services are provided by reach of programmes. The anganwadi organization (NGO), CARE-India, two groups of government functionaries: workers, auxiliary nurse-midwives, and with the Indian government and local auxiliary nurse-midwives, and maternal change agents in the intervention NGOs. The programme was imple- and child health promotion (anganwadi) district received a total of 6 days of mented through the infrastructure of workers. Auxiliary nurse-midwives work training on the care of mothers and the government’s Ministry of Women in health centres that serve a rural popu- newborn babies; as a group, we refer to and Child Development’s Integrated lation of about 5000 people. They make them as community-based workers. In Child Development Services and the home visits to promote home care and the INHP, information to encourage Ministry of Health and Family Welfare care-seeking, attend deliveries, provide behaviour change was usually commu- (Fig. 1). The newborn care package immunization and encourage use of nicated during antenatal and postnatal aimed to increase the frequency of be- family planning methods. Anganwadi home visits by the community-based haviours during the antenatal, delivery workers serve one village (a population workers (Table 1). and postnatal periods that have proven of approximately 1000) and operate benefits for maternal and newborn sur- a facility called an anganwadi centre. Study location, population and vival (Table 1). The INHP also included They promote maternal, newborn design interventions to improve immunization and child health from fixed sites and Although the programme was imple- rates and the nutritional status of child- through home visits, distribute supple- mented in eight states, we collected Bulletin of the World Health Organization | October 2008, 86 (10) 797 Research Nutrition and health programme’s impact on neonatal mortality Abdullah H Baqui et al. Table 1. Intervention components of the neonatal care package Period Strategies related to newborn health Behaviours promoted to mothers/families Prenatal Home visitation by auxiliary nurse-midwife, aganwadi • Early registration of pregnancy with aganwadi worker and auxiliary worker and change agent to provide counselling on nurse-midwife preventive care, nutrition, preparedness for child • At least three antenatal check-ups birth, and health-care utilization for complications. • Two doses
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